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Behind the scenes: How Apple designed its most exclusive product ever

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Why Instagram’s dreaded Shopping tab is a big win for small businesses

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Apple has revealed the best apps of 2020. Here’s what they reveal about us

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Speed, demand, and responsibility: How messaging app Line dealt with 2020

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Digitizing your brain: Sci-fi pipe dream, or scientific possibility?

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This incredible brain-reading headset aims to make mice and keyboards obsolete

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How A.I. bumblebee brains could usher in a new era for navigation

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There’s no reason to buy a gaming PC anymore thanks to new consoles

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The digital switch that blocks all websites from selling your personal data

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The end of Arecibo: The era of giant telescopes is coming to a close

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How SpaceX could transform Starlink into an ultraprecise GPS network

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Why Cloud9 believes its first all-women’s team is a big step for e-sports

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Measuring microns: The quest to build a better GPS

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How artists and activists are using deepfakes as a force for good

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Bang and Olufsen talks design to celebrate 95 years of the ‘goose bump factory’

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The plan to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere and use it to rebuild Earth’s coasts

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Five Google Assistant-powered smart display features worth checking out

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Ditch the manual toothbrush, smart toothbrushes under $50 are better buys

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Like a futuristic phone booth, PORTL lets you communicate via full-body hologram

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These teachers aren’t just enduring the remote education era — they’re thriving

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A.I. teaching assistants could help fill the gaps created by virtual classrooms

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Leaps, bounds, and beyond: Robot agility is progressing at a feverish pace

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Planet busters: We asked a physicist what it would take to obliterate Earth

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These blaze-battling bots are the future of firefighting

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Exclusive: From RAM to religion: How Acer is helping the world cope with COVID-19

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Amazing new headset translates thoughts into speech for vocally impaired wearers

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The good, the bad, and the ugly of satellite megaconstellations

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Troy Baker and Nolan North talk their Dirt 5 rivalry: ‘There was no script’

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How a hyperrealistic robo-dolphin is paving the way for animatronic aquariums

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Facebook is developing AR glasses to help deaf people hear better

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Despite obvious dangers, autonomous killer robot tech is charging ahead

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20 years in orbit: A video tour of the past two decades of life on the ISS

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Feeding astronauts is hard, so this startup wants to grow steaks in space

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Pick up the pace: How the pandemic supercharged the evolution of exercise tech

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How astronomers study dark matter, the most mysterious substance in the universe

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Technology is easier than ever to use — and it’s making us miserable

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More security cameras need color night vision. Here’s why.

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The 5 big PlayStation 5 games you should keep an eye on

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Can A.I. solve one of the oldest mysteries of linguistics?

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The top 10 most brutal iPhone torture tests of all time

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The robot ‘artist’ that’s challenging humanity’s concept of creativity

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A.I. creativity is improving fast. This hilarious GPT3-generated film is proof

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We could slow climate change by dimming the sun. But should we?

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The five big Xbox Series X games you should keep an eye on

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Forget AR glasses. Augmented reality is headed to your windshield

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Open-Source Leg: The quest to create a bionic limb that anyone can build

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Why aren’t smartphones designed for a woman’s hand size?

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This bot will destroy you at Pictionary. It’s also a huge milestone for A.I.

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Scientists want to blanket the Earth in sensors. Their secret weapon? Moths

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38 years ago, CDs rewrote our relationship with music and primed us for 2020

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